Columbian Exposition

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The Dream City, The City of Light, The Magic City, The White City

List of Photographs

    The Midway Plaisance
  1. Blarney Castle
  2. Blarney Castle (Detail / women with fan "shades")
  3. Exposition Gardens in Jackson Park
  4. The German Village
  5. Japanese Bazaar
  6. Japanese Bazaar (Detail showing fairgoers in obvious enjoyment of an unknown performer)
  7. Turkish Village
  8. Turkish Village (Detail / Menu)
  9. Turkish Village (Detail / Dancing Girls sign)
    The Lagoon
  1. Transportation Building Golden Doors: The architects for this building were Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, and they were assisted by a young apprentice named Frank Lloyd Wright.
  2. Transportation Building Golden Doors (Detail from the lower left quadrant of the photograph shows a slice of life of the fairgoers and workmen at the Exposition.)
  3. Transportation Building Golden Doors (Photo of 4 x 5 inch Negative) This is an example of the 4 x 5 inch glass negatives that were used to take all of the pictures in this collection. The negatives are stored in the abbey archives.
  4. Louis Sullivan's National Farmers Bank (1907-8), Owatonna, MN. Sullivan, who died in 1924, was a successful architect for many buildings in Chicago and elsewhere, including the bank that remains in Owatonna, MN. Note the repeat of the "arch theme" used on the 1893 Transportation Building. [Picture taken from: Larry Millett, The Curve of the Arch, Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, 1985).]
  5. Transportation Building (note photographer's camera bag, lower left)
  6. Hotricultural Hall
  7. Fisheries
  8. US Government Building and Venetian Boats
  9. US Government Building Interior
  10. Department of Interior Museum
    The Wooded Island
  1. Japanese House
  2. Japanese Village
    The North Canal
  1. Manufactures and Liberal Arts, Electricity, and Mining Buildings
  2. Hemicycle of Electricity Building
    The Grand Basin
  1. Ship Columbia
  2. Ship Columbia (Photo of 4 x 5 inch Negative) This is an example of the 4 x 5 inch glass negatives used to take all of the images in this collection.
  3. Ship Columbia in MacMonnies Fountain
        Detail: View of Ship
  4. Triumphal Arch and Peristyle
        Detail: "The Statue of Plenty" by E.C. Potter, one of two massive bovine sculptures.
  5. Buildings with Colonnade
  6. Administration and Machinery Building
    The Canal
  1. Art Palace and Café de la Marine (description)
  2. Mining Building and Canal
  3. Mining Building and Canal (Detail of horse and Native American rider)
    Lakeside North
  1. Das Deutsche Haus (the tall spire contained a chime of bells cast in honor of the Emperor's grandmother.) New South Wales was housed in the classical structure, front right.
  2. Swedish Building
  3. Swedish Building (Detail) Here you have a greatly enlarged section of the "Swedish Building" image. It shows a few customers at an outdoor ice cream stand.
    Lakeside South
  1. La Rabida (Replica of Spanish Monastery where Columbus sought refuge and the advice of the monks. The replica housed artifacts of Columbus voyage)
  2. La Rabida (Detail)
  3. La Rabida Children's Hospital on Chicago Waterfront (Today)
  4. La Rabida Monastery in Spain
    The South Pond
  1. Santa Maria Replica


 

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